... Iowa Robotic Telescope | ... Talon is based on OCAAS, a software suite developed by software engineer Elwood Downey ( Clear Sky Institute ) for use at the University of Iowa ?s first remote facility (the ATF, or Automated Telescope Facility). ... XObservatory : Telescope Control Interface . ... This program calls upon and coordinates much of the interrelated portions of the Talon architecture, and forms the primary control panel for the telescope, dome, and peripheral systems when used locally. ...

... Corporate Partners Rock Our Cosmos! Current Partners . ... In addition to Sky & Telescope and SkyandTelescope.com, the comany publishes Night Sky, a bimonthly magazine for beginning astronomers, an annual magazine called SkyWatch, an annual magazine called Beautiful Universe, as well as books, star atlases, posters, prints, globes, and other fine astronomy products. ... We thank our Corporate Affiliates for their annual investment in partnering with the ASP to improve astronomy education. ...

... This new image composite of the southwest region of M31 from the Subaru Telescope shows many stars, nebulae, and star clusters never before resolved. ... Cold Dust in the Eagle Nebula . ... Stars are born in M16's Eagle Nebula, a stellar nursery 7,000 light-years from Earth toward the constellation Serpens. The striking nebula's star forming pillars of gas and dust are familiar to astronomers from images at visible wavelengths, but this false-color picture shows off the nebula in infrared light. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Space Flight . ... Earth Satellites . ... Concept Spacecraft . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... This image of Earth (left) and the Moon (right) was taken by the Juno space probe's JunoCam, three weeks after its 5 August launch. (image credit:: NASA / JPL / MSSS) . ... Earth and the Moon form a тАЬdouble planetтАЭ unique in the Solar System. ... Subscribe to Astronotes . ...

Search Site . ... Advanced Search? ... Main goal of our group is to study energy transformation mechanisms in extreme gravitational and magnetic fields of such objects as black holes, pulsars, white dwarfs and flaring stars. Currently, the Group staff is working on the following scientific topics: . Study of rapidly variable astrophysical objects with high temporal resolution . ... Maintained by Sergey Karpov љ-љPart ofљ Special Astrophysical Observatory љwebsite ...

... Conference . ... for optical telescopes of small and medium size (up to 3-m in aperture) to be discussed. Current Status and New Projects of Small- and Medium-Size Optical Telescopes . ... Science with Small- and Medium-Size Optical Telescopes . ... 12 May 2015 - First announcement . 1 June 2015 - Registration opens . 10 June 2015 - Abstract submission opens . ... 10 September 2015 - Programme available . 19 October 2015 - Conference opens . 22 October 2015 - Conference closes . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . The NorthWest Astronomy Group currently operates a 12.5" telescope at the Vernonia Peak Telescope Observatory in Vernonia Oregon. ... Vernonia, OR 97064 . ... Web Site . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... Contemporary State ol SETI Problem In Russia . ... Presently the scientific and technological civilization on Earth possesses only one method of searching for extraterrestrial civilizations in outer space - the method of remote observation by scanning, optical and radio data from the surrounding space and by trying to detect and. recognize possibly intelligent signals. ... Theoretical Foundations ot the Contact oi Intelligent System. ... Intermediary Languages for the Contact ot Intelligent Systems....

MINUTES of the RadioAstron Teleconference on December 13, 2011 Yu.Yu. ... IOC status update M. Popov informed the participants on the current IOC results. ... Kovalev added: we continue to observe pulsars and spectral line sources in radiointerferometer mode but only with spacecraft and we are also going to observing pulsars soon with space-ground baselines. ... Kovalev: It is fringe-fitting result. ... In RAFS05 we replace it with K-band observing (maser source Ori KL ­ spectral lines ~100000Jy). ...

... This experiment makes use of a novel an sophisticated CCD imaging design whereby by 4 2048x2048 detectors are butted together to form a single 4096x4096 pixel detector system. ... Figure 4 (1.1 Megs) shows an example image from one of the LMC fields that is searched for gravitational microlensing amplification of stellar brightness. ... Figure 5 (124 Kbytes) shows an image of NGC 253, taken with this camera and a 320x512 RCA CCD which has 30 micron size pixels. ... Page 5 . ...

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... But there also exists a practical angle: in a world increasingly dependent on electricity and electronics, the "space weather" outside the atmosphere can have serious effects, in particular on human communications. Currently more than 200 communication satellites circle the Earth in synchronous orbit . ... For a view of NOAA's "space weather report," click here ; another such report, from the University of Michigan, is linked here . ... Another such event occured April 7-11, 1997 . ...

... June 16, 2009 - TESIS has recorded new sizeable mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere . One of this year's largest mass ejections from the Sun's atmosphere was recorded last Sunday by TESIS telescopes aboard the CORONAS-PHOTON satellite (video - wmv 4.3 MB). ... June 6, 2009 - This year's largest group of sunspots passes across the solar disk . ... June 2, 2009 - A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ... A malfunction in one of the TESIS telescopes has been fixed . ...

... One of the major activities going on at my Mira observatory at Sava, Italy, is to record deep sky CCD images for a personal atlas I'm currently working on. ... Images are made using a SpectraSource CCD HPC 1 camera equipped with a Texas Instrument TC215 chip, 1024 square, 12 micron pixels size, at 16 bit. ... After a 40sec exposure, the PC monitor showed a faint glow just above the camera termal noise. ... The image showed clearly a star in the galaxy core, of magnitude 14.5, some 50sec. ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Mad Science . ... Where is the Hubble space telescope currently? (near what planet?) You may be surprised by this, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is orbiting the Earth! ... At that height, HST is above almost all of the Earth's atmosphere, which gives it a clearer view of the sky than telescopes on the Earth. ... You can find pictures and info from STIS here , which is a page brought to you by the Space Telescope Science Institute . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Moscow Astronomical Plate Archives: . Contents, Digitization, Current and Possible Applications . ... We describe the astronomical plate archives in Moscow and Zvenigorod and the existing digitization projects. ... 2 The Plate Archive of the Sternberg Institute . The contents of the most important Moscow astronomical plate archive, that of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, was briefly presented in Shugarov et al. [1] in 1999. ... THE MOSCOW PLATE COLLECTION (STERNBERG INSTITUTE) . ...

JournИes SystХmes de RИfИrence Spatio-Temporels , St Petersburg, Russia, 22-24 Septembre 2014 Optical monitoring of QSO in the framework of the Gaia space mission F. Taris (1), G. Damljanovic (2), A. Andrei (3), A. Klotz (4) , F. Vachier (5) (1) Observatoire de Paris - SyRTE, France , (2) Astronomical observatory of Belgrad, Serbia, (3) Observatorio Nacional MCT, Brasil, (4) UniversitИ de Toulouse, France (5) Observatoire de Paris ­ IMCCE, ...

1 - entrance slit; 2 - off-axis collimator; 3 - flat mirror; 4 - grating (24 deg, 600 gr/mm); 5 - echelle grating (63.5 deg, 37.5 gr/mm); 6 - echelle grating (63.5 deg, 75 gr/mm); 7 - prisms (A=45 deg); 8 - corrector; 9 - flat mirror; 10 - spherical mirror; 11 - CCD camera . CEGS permits us to obtain high S/N spectra (100) of stars up to 7th magnitude in the "high-dispersion" mode (R~40000). ... Coude Echelle/Grating Spectrometer (CEGS) designed by F.A.Musaev (Sov. ...